Melissa Melero-Moose | |
|---|---|
| Born | 1974 |
| Nationality | Paiute-Shoshone Tribe of the Fallon Reservation and Colony, American |
| Alma mater | BFA Institute of American Indian Arts, BS Portland State University |
| Known for | mixed-media art, founder of Great Basin Native Artists |
| Website | melissamelero |
Melissa Melero-Moose is a Northern Paiute/Modoc mixed-media artist and founder of Great Basin Native Artists from Nevada. She is enrolled in the Paiute-Shoshone Tribe of the Fallon Reservation and Colony.[1]
Background
editMelissa Melero-Moose was born in San Francisco, California,[2] in 1974.
Art career
editMelero-Moose developed a style of abstract, mixed-media paintings that reference the landscape and culture of her Northern Paiute people. She painted with acrylic washes with layers rice paper and natural objects, such as willow, tule, cattails, and pine nuts.[3] Great Basin landscape, petroglyphs, and basketry inspired her work.[4]
She has frequently exhibited at the Santa Fe Indian Market and Heard Museum Guild Fair & Market in Phoenix, Arizona.[5]
Great Basin advocacy
editTo address the invisibility of Indigenous peoples of the Great Basin in the Native American art world, Melero-Moose founded the Great Basin Native Artists (GBNA) collective in 2014. She has curated numerous group exhibitions of Great Basin artists, including Great Basin Native Artists (2016) at the Carson City Community Center.[1]
Beginning in 2018, the Nevada Museum of Art gave Melero-Moose a fellowship to research and create a directory and archive of Great Basin Native artists.[6]
Public collections
editSelected exhibitions
edit- 2019: Stories from the Land: Indigenous Voices Connecting within the Great Plains, Birger Sandzén Memorial Gallery, Lindsborg, KS[5]
- 2017–18: Connective Tissue: New Approaches to Fiber in Contemporary Native Art, IAIA Museum of Contemporary Native Arts, Santa Fe[7]
- 2017: Great Basin Artists, CN Gorman Museum, Davis, CA[5]
Awards and honors
editBesides winning several awards at Santa Fe Indian Market, Melero-Moose was selected by SWAIA as its Santa Fe INdian Market Discovery Fellow]] in 2016.[5]
In 2015, the School for Advanced Research chose Melero-Moose as its Ronald and Susan Dubin fellow.[3]
References
edit- ^ a b "Great Basin Native Artists". Capital City Arts Initiative. 2016. Retrieved 23 November 2019.
- ^ Herr, Chelsea (September 2017). "Melissa Melero-Moose: Guided by the Land". Santa Fean: 164. Retrieved 23 November 2019.
- ^ a b "Melissa Melero-Moose". Native American Artist Fellows / 2015. School for Advanced Research. Retrieved 23 November 2019.
- ^ "Melissa Melero". Nevada's Indian Territory. Retrieved 23 November 2019.
- ^ a b c d "Melissa Melero-Moose". Native American Artists Resource Collection Online. Heard Museum Billie Jane Baguley Library and Archives. Retrieved 23 November 2019.
- ^ Horn, Amanda. "Great Basin Native Artists and Nevada Museum of Art collaborate 0". First American Art Magazine. p. 23 July 2019. Retrieved 23 November 2019.
- ^ "Connective Tissue: New Approaches to Fiber in Contemporary Native Art". Happenings. Institute of American Indian Arts. 2017. Retrieved 23 November 2019.
External links
edit- Melissa Melero-Moose, Great Basin Native Artists
https://www.newsreview.com/reno/in-clear-view/content?oid=28871416